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Friday, September 3, 2010

Friday Fun Day Lives on through the fall!

Summer is gone and that is sad.

But Friday Fun Day has decided to live on! Yay!

I asked Belle the other day if she wanted to keep Friday Fun Day through the school year and she said yes. So, yesterday I went into her school schedule (be patient, I will do a post after this about that kind of stuff) and tweaked it so she only has one class on Friday and the rest of the day is ours! I also made a point to not schedule piano lessons on Friday so we could have this day together.

Today was a pretty simple Fun Day, but a good one.

First we went out to the Liberty Montessori (formerly Jefferson Montessori). Sam teaches karate there and I am going to do a few piano lessons (my group lessons) for elementary age kids. I won't be doing a lot because frankly, I don't think I am physically capable of a lot right now and I need to be careful not to add a ton to our life. But, since I am doing this and Sam is doing karate our kids get to do all of the elective classes at the Montessori (and their field trips) for either free or a nominal charge for certain ones! (Those of you who worry for my kids and their social time, you can let go of that breath you were holding, lol.) And while I teach my kids will be in the classroom for a bit. It will get us out of the house AND double as our Friday Fun Day activities a lot. Yay!

After that we went to the park (I loved being the only people there for awhile, another bonus!) and played tennis together. Belle did pretty good and I want to get her some tennis lessons down the road. Buddy and X pretty much lobbed and chased balls and were happy to be running around and I attempted to not waddle. It was pretty fun.

Later in the day when X had finished his nap the kids wanted to see Grandma and Grandpa so we went over and hung out and the boys tried to demolish a hammock and croquet set. Pretty normal.

We drove into town and got Daddy a HAPPY treat since he found out today he has to cover shifts this weekend (another weekend of fun we had planned totally thrown out the window... I am trying to find the positive but I'm too round and tired to do it today. Maybe tomorrow.) and then we came home.

We ended it with Belle getting to watch a tv show by herself, Buddy and Daddy having a "father daughter date" (Belle and Sam have those and Buddy wanted one too. I have unsuccessfully worked to call it something more... appropriate. Oh well.) and Xander and I looked at a fabric catalog. He pointed to fabrics and said, "do you want this one?" and I would respond and then he would tell me if it was pretty or not. We did that until she curled up and said, "Mommy, I want to sleep now... in YOUR bed!"
That got him an extra hug and off we went for sleepy time... in HIS bed. We're working hard to help him stay in his bed before baby brother shows up. Because our bed can only fit so many interlopers and the new kiddo is going to need his place of honor!

So, not a fancy Friday Fun Day, but a fun one. I can't wait for Friday Fun Day year round!

Favorite Quotes

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.- Mark Twain

Lose your life in service and you will become great.Do What is right, even when it is difficult, especially when it is difficult. Do not make the mistake of being a social climber. Of course you will want to use your knowledge and skills and talents to do great things. But do them because they are right, because they are good, not because they make you look good.There may also be those who discount or undermine your attempts to improve the world, who laugh at your educational or career choice. Let them. And while you let them, quietly set out to serve them. You are not changing the world to impress them, you are doing it because it is right.-"A Thomas Jefferson Education" Oliver DeMille

I know thou works, that thou are neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spue thee out of my mouth.-New Testament, Revalations 3:15-16

Remember, you are not managing an inconvenience; you are raising a human being.-Kittie Franz

Make careful, slow choices about the people you include in your child's life--- and fast choices about the ones you exclude from your child's life.-Gavin De Becker

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is an attribute of the Strong.-Mahatma Gandhi

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.-Frederick Douglass

In God we trust; all others we run through NCIC.-police quote

The greatest love story never told

Sambodini and Kimberlina (or Sam and Kimber if you want to be boring about it.)

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Dear God, give me COURAGE, for perhaps I lackit more than anything else.I need COURAGE as I witness my husband'sdeparture for duty each day.I need COURAGE as I see him put on his uniformbecause I know the abuse that perhapshe will be subjected to before he returnsfrom his tour of duty.I need COURAGE in dealing with the childrenwhen he is working long hoursduring demonstrations or on aninvestigationI need COURAGE when tensions buildup onthe job and pressures at hometo mount and life becomes almosttoo much to bear.I need COURAGE to stand firm and not tosuccumb to the urge to run awayfrom problems.Help me to have the strength to be aCOURAGEOUS and Valiant Woman,when I learn from the media that a"police officer's been hurt."The next time I waver or grow faint-hearted,Help me, O Divine Master,to be COURAGEOUS.And, having found the source of strength inYou, Help me to reach out toothers, who may be justas scared as I.